Railway Ban on Music
Claiming that band music would disturb sleeping passengers, railway officials the other night refused to allow Orange bandsmen to farewell…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1941
642 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 33
Jump From Train Soldiers Elude Guards
Passengers on the Melbourne Express received a shock on Tuesday morning when two soldiers returning to Sydney under escort eluded their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Car Ran Off the Road
Most of the reports of fatal road accidents in recent months contain the significant words, “the car ran off the road,” and end with such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Crash in Queensland Landslide Between Tunnels Amazing Escapes
Late on Sunday night a mail train on its journey to Brisbane crashed head-on into thousands of tons of rock which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Excursions in February
Word has been received, from the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, that the next general series of excursion trains will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New South Wales State Railways Establishment and Development
For nearly 70 years after the arrival of Governor Phillip's fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788 trade in New South Wales was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Officials in Car Smash Near Goulburn
Three prominent railway officials together with a youth, narrowly escaped serious injury when a car in which they were travelling overturn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yass Motors Garage Purchased by Mr. J. Sample
Yass Motors Garage has been purchased by Mr. J. Sample, of Sample’s Garage, from Mr. C. R. Fitz Walter. Mr. Sample takes over the business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Bridge Boxer's Creek
A report submitted to Thursday's meeting of the Mulwaree Shire Council disclosed that in addition to good progress on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorists’ Corner Official R.A.C.A. Notes
When you have held clean licences in six different countries over a period of twenty years, you are apt to hang around in the offing when they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge Needed Towrang Crossing Flooded
Owing to the flooded state of the Wollondilly the river at the Towrang crossing a few hundred yards from the Hume Highway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fast Driving Motorists Pay Penalty
Fines and costs totalling £7 were imposed at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday on four motorists who were charged by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fall From Train Boorowa Man Hurt
When returning on leave to his wife at Boorowa on the Melbourne Express, Sergeant Charles Dick, of school teacher at Rye Park,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Safety Mistakes And Neglect
The road accident figures for January show an unusually high percentage of accidents caused by motorists falling to signal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.S.W. RAILWAYS Huge Expenditure Approved
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The New South Wales Railway Department has authorised the expenditure of about £750,000 on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier's Jump from Train Injuries to Tongue and Face
When returning on leave to his wife at Boorowa on the Melbourne express on Saturday morning, Sergeant Charles Dick, of the A.I.F…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Waiting Room Marriage
The waiting room at the Bathurst railway station was the scene of a dramatic early morning wedding between a Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Dog Box Man's Train Trip
When he opened the doors of the dog box in the brake van of the Melbourne Limited Express after its arrival in Goulburn early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Staff Farewell Striking Tribute To Mr. T. Hudson
Drawn from practically every section of the Southern Railway Division, more than 100 executive officers and other railway employees were present at the farewell social tendered at the Royal Hotel last night to the former District…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burma Road Bridge Bombed By Japs
NEW YORK; Sunday (A.A.P.): The New York Times Shanghai correspondent states that Japanese bombers have effectively wrecked the…
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